# The Middle East: The Torchbearers

Title from data sheet

A foreign film (Canada)

Second in a series of fourteen programs originally shown on television

Intended audience: Junior high school through college students

Issued also as videorecording

Emphasizes the crucial role of Islam in the history of the Middle East in bridging the 800 year gap between the fall of Rome and the onset of the European Renaissance in the early fourteenth century

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1984
- By: TVOntario, Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/themiddleeastthetorchbearers)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/themiddleeastthetorchbearers?play=1)